vilification

vilify | American Dictionary

vilify
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/ˈvɪl·əˌfɑɪ/
to say or write unpleasant things about someone or something, in order to cause other people to have a bad opinion of that person or thing:
He claimed he was unfairly vilified by the press.

Examples of vilify

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Or perhaps they discounted the charge as yet another transparent attempt to vilify the poet, rather than a legitimate and substantive comparison.
In fact, they vilified the international market to such an extent that foreign military threats and hostile foreign diplomacy became insignificant.
It was both celebrated as "picturesque" and vilified as a source of contamination.
Critics of state policy were vilified in the media as traitors.
The materials examined allow tentative judgements about a group which has been vilified in the historiography of the subject.
The cabinet preferred to vilify many aspects of its behaviour at the very time its support was needed most.
Hate speech does not just express discriminator y attitudes; it wounds, threatens, and vilifies its audience in ways that evoke visceral rather than articulate response.
The excessive irritability that often accompanies both the manic and depressive poles can lead to pervasive interpersonal conflict and the tendency to either vilify or idealize others.
Bramsbury's depiction does not suggest an idyllic, temperate working class who were unfairly vilified by the press and higher classes.
She would be vilified in the press.
By contrast, it does not seem difficult to imagine an open and vigorous discussion of affirmative action that did not permit the use of racial epithets to vilify and wound.
She will be vilified in the press.
It was then vilified in the press because it had taken up an issue relating to safety and quality control.
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